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...public hint that something had been bungled in Defense, letters of protest harried the responsible agencies in Washington. The War Department published a long list of U. S. companies. All were out for something (tax concessions), but all were producing something for Defense: powder, trucks, elastic stop nuts, brass & copper, engines, airplanes, cotton cloth, machine tools, worsted, rope. Army lieu tenants (the Valley Forge Military Academy at Wayne, Pa. claimed tax concessions on the ground that it was expanding its capacity to train cadets). President Roosevelt sensed and rode the current...
...have revealed "architectural, engineering and metallurgical skills which, in some respects, have hardly been excelled today." reported Archeologist Nelson Glueck. director of the American School of Oriental Research at Jerusalem. Important as a naval base and port. Ezion-geber was still more important as the greatest copper and iron smelting town of antiquity. The diggings have shown that "it was the largest single armament centre of the day, and played an exceedingly important role in furnishing arms for the tremendous na tional defense scheme which Solomon planned and completed in record-breaking time" (I Kings...
...significance of this fact was that two export items were responsible for some 50% of the increase:† 1) refined and scrap copper (up almost 180% to 29,000 tons); 2) metal-working machinery (up 109% to $1,410,000; $21,166,000 for ten months...
Last month, the copper industry admit ted that there was a copper shortage and made a deal with Defense Commissioner Henderson to let 100,000 tons of cheap Latin-American copper into the U. S. this year (TIME, Dec. 9). Last week from the Defense Advisory Commission came reports of a new study of copper demand based on the fabricating mills running on Knudsen schedule - three shifts a day, sev en days a week. On the basis of the U. S.'s using Latin America's capacity output (perhaps 600,000 tons a year), it estimated that...
Last week the State Department still maintained a know-nothing attitude, but the Defense Advisory Commission finally asked that copper and zinc exports (mean ing to Japan and Russia) be made subject to licensing. The zinc request was prompted, among other things, by a blast earlier this month from C. Donald Dallas of Revere Copper & Brass. Dallas' com plaint: in October, Japan got 3,775 tons of zinc, in 1940's first ten months, 12,042 tons. Meanwhile, Brass mills working on cartridges, shell cases, detonator caps, rotating bands, fuse caps, other munitions for British...